Our landscape is our heritage, the blossom tree we see from our classroom window, that we celebrate each spring and the wider landscape that surrounds us.

We have created a ‘forest’ that provides food and shelter for all kinds of insects and animals.

Using wood that was felled by Storm Eowyn we have created height in the garden, extra space = more life. Towers of insect homes, drilled dead wood, perches for birds, a habitat wigwam, plant labels and even the woodchip mulching our soil.

We have filled the garden with flowers and edible plants to encourage as much wildlife as possible. These have all been grown from our collected seeds or propagated from larger plants. Not all our seeds germinated and some plants have been eaten by all the creatures we have welcomed into the garden....and to celebrate KSB's 25th anniversary I’m sure we have a snail or 2 to weave a silver trail around our garden.

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We have loved watching the garden grow, noticing the small changes each week. We loved lying under our blossom tree as the petals fell on us, watering our seedlings and shaking 1000 seeds from 1 poppy head.

Some quotes from pupils about their favourite part of creating our garden:

“Putting the plants in the soil, we got messy, it was fun!”

“It was making the strawberry pots and planting the strawberry plants.”

“When we made our own tags for the plants, it let us know what everything was.”

“I loved making the bug hotels, the bird bath and the mouse house!”

We have learned so much while creating our garden, for example learning how to drill wood, realising that something that people would throw out can be used again or re-used in a different way. We have learned all about different plants and what plants can be helpful for animals especially minibeasts.

We have been lucky to have the most amazing volunteer come in to help us with our garden. She was a parent at our school, but now her children have gone to the local academy she still likes to come in and help us to maintain our school garden. She has donated seeds and plants but most importantly her time to help us create our garden. She has been the driving force and we really appreciate it.

We will keep looking after our garden, watch it change and grow, collect the new seeds and maybe make another as we have been truly inspired.